April, 2010

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Charles Sterling Bio

Charles Sterling aka "Chuck" has over 15 years of Developer tools experience at Microsoft. He came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for the United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. An MCSE and MCSD, he started out at Microsoft in developer support focusing on FOXPRO, Visual Basic and the platform SDK, then worked as an engineer for the database teams on ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), and specializing in Microsoft SQL Server. From there Charles took a position with the Solutions Integration Escalation Team, which focused on assisting Microsoft customers with the integration of disparate software technologies into viable enterprise solutions, on this team Charles focused on Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) doing numerous talks at conferences, writing papers and teaching classes on the topic. Charles’ role in Redmond before moving to Australia for the last seven years was the product manager for the .NET Framework. Chuck is currently back in Redmond working as Program Manager in the Visual Studio Team System Team.

We have had a couple of requests for the ONE place to start learning about Team Foundation Server 2010… With this in mind we created a new page Team Foundation Server 2010 that covers: Essential Resources, Visual Studio ALM Rangers TFS Guidance, Hands...

Like me you probably installed the trial edition of Visual Studio 2010 a while back…and are now probably wondering how to activate your installation. -And if you tried this over the last couple of days you probably noticed we had some challenges...

In Visual Studio 2010 Under certain circumstances the you may encounter problems opening the Test View window. (see image below) Luckily it is easy to fix. To make it go away, you need to close/reopen Visual Studio. If you don’t want this...

A long time back i posted Mediaencoder doesn’t work with Windows Vista for doing screen captures. On Windows 7 mediaencoder at least is a little more graceful – in that it disables the Video device. (see image below) When we built Microsoft...

One challenge working with community at Microsoft is you want to be able to show off the the latest and greatest…unfortunately often times these technologies just don’t work together. For instance during the Dev10 push we kept leapfrogging with...

I love Code Camps and the folks in Portland do an awesome job! In hopes of getting a presentation; I have already submitted my session proposal: Code Monkey Tour of ALM Features in Visual Studio 2010 In typical code monkey style Chuck will...

If you are in the area and looking for something to do Seattle Code Camp ( http://seattle.codecamp.us ) occurs this weekend. This is a free event with hundreds of developers (well over 500 registered) covering a wide variety of technical (non-marketing...

There have been several posts along the lines of: VISUAL STUDIO 2010 WEB INSTALLER INSTALLS A TRAIL VERSION!!! (This one from AzamSharp) Turns out the web installer is designed to give you the trial edition -and in the defense of the release team the...

After a release one of the most commonly pieces of information we receive requests for is simply: “How do I get started?”. While we don’t have a ton of new content – yet- we definitely have enough to get you going and keep you busy for a while...